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| Genre/Form: | Textbooks |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moshman, David. Adolescent psychological development. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999 (OCoLC)607140278 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Moshman |
| ISBN: | 0805828575 9780805828573 0805828583 9780805828580 |
| OCLC Number: | 40489299 |
| Description: | xi, 141 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Development, Psychology, and Adolescence -- 2. Piaget's Theory of Formal Operations -- 3. The Nature of Rationality -- 4. The Construction of Rationality -- 5. Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development -- 6. The Nature of Morality -- 7. The Construction of Morality -- 8. Erikson's Theory of Identity Formation -- 9. The Nature of Identity -- 10. The Construction of Identity -- 11. Pluralist Rational Constructivism: A Metatheory of Psychological Development -- 12. Rationality and Liberty in Secondary Education. |
| Responsibility: | David Moshman. |
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<p>Review from the first edition: <br>..".I wish to note how pleasantly surprised I was in becoming acquainted with this volume, after 30 years of teaching adolescence courses. Here students are offered a real vision of a period of life that, in most cases, they have just traversed or are still experiencing. Each part is very precise, accurate, and eminently readable. Difficult ideas are explained without condescending adjustments to the student's presumed capacities or interests. For instance, the chapters on moral development are among the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and balanced treatments of this issue that I have seen in textbooks."<br>?Contemporary Psychology<p>Review from the first edition: <br>"Professor Moshman has written an engaging, uncommonly clear, and uniformly stimulating textbook that will also prove to be an important addition to the adolescent development literature--a rare achievement indeed....This is a careful, well thought-out analysis of three foundational l Read more...
